She reported she had received a text message from Perry indicating he was outside, and said she opened her front door because she feared he would otherwise kick the door down.

Once inside, the woman said, Perry repeatedly punched her in the face, held a knife with “a bone or deer antler handle” to her back and throat, and grabbed her “around the throat (until) she was unable to breathe."

She said after vowing to kill her, the Muncie man fled from the home.

Police reported the woman had a bloody nose; cuts on her face, left hand and forearm that were apparently inflicted with the knife and bruising on her forehead.

A nurse at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital – where the woman was taken by ambulance – said the victim also had a bite mark on her back.

A knife matching the description provided by the woman was found in Perry’s car, authorities said.

He was being held in the Delaware County jail on Friday under a $22,500 bond, preliminarily charged with aggravated battery, intimidation, domestic battery, strangulation and resisting law enforcement.

According to court records, Perry since 2004 has been convicted of auto theft, battery resulting in bodily injury (twice), battery with a deadly weapon (three times), driving while intoxicated, public intoxication and residential entry.

Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.